Archive: health disparities

• Studying Barriers to Health Care to Help Women with HIV

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, health disparities, health equity, HIV, public health

• Passion for Health Equity Inspires Undergraduate HJA Collaboration

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, health equity, health justice, Health Justice Alliance, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Seeking Social Justice for Patients, Medical Students Turn to the Law

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, health disparities, health justice, Health Justice Alliance, medical-legal partnership, population health

• Adams-Campbell, Internationally Renowned Cancer Epidemiologist, Named a 2018 Washingtonian of the Year

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, population health

• Experts and D.C. Residents Come Together for Breast Cancer Community Forum

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, community outreach, health disparities, population health

• Lynce Receives Potter Award for Early Career Research

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, university awards

• First-Year Medical Students Confront Health Disparities Through Interactive Course

  The Health Disparities and Health Equity intersession gave participating first-year Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) greater insight into how health can be affected by a complex web of external factors.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, population health, School of Medicine

• ACA Expansion Did Not Improve Access to Complex Surgeries for Low-Income/Minority Patients

  A new study published by a team led by Georgetown University Medical Center researchers finds that despite expectations following the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s Medicaid expansion, there was no increased use of complex surgical procedures at high volume hospitals among ethnic/racial minorities and low-income populations.

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, health disparities, population health, School of Medicine

• Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance, O’Neill Institute Welcome World Bank President Jim Kim

  Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law hosted a screening of the film “Bending the Arc,” about the founding of the NGO Partners in Health, on March 7. One of the film’s subjects, Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, now president of the World Bank, was present for a discussion afterward.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, medical-legal partnership, population health

• Annual Colloquium Addresses Health Disparities in D.C.

  The colloquium held on November 16 as part of this year’s GUMC Fall Convocation brought together Georgetown faculty members to discuss the theme “Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities.”

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, population health